“I am not suing the [Campaign Against Antisemitism] on behalf of myself but on behalf of all those who have suffered from its libelous attacks. It’s not just my fight but yours too,” Greenstein wrote on his blog this week.

He told The Electronic Intifada on Tuesday that if he won it would be “an immense setback” for this smear used by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, and many other pro-Israel groups.

The Israeli government and its supporters around the world have a long record of misrepresenting concern for Palestinian human rights as anti-Semitism.

Greenstein told The Electronic Intifada that the organization had also been quoted in a 189-page dossier by the Labour Party bureaucrats who are currently trying to expel him from the party.

Hard-right Zionists

The Campaign Against Antisemitism represents the hard right of the UK’s Zionist movement. It specializes in compiling misleading online dossiers smearing Palestine campaigners as anti-Semites.

A Palestinian student who moved to the UK from Gaza in order to study, Malaka became a strong presence in the UK’s student politics, particularly in the boycott, divestment and sanctions – or BDS – movement against Israel.

The organization called for her to be expelled, claiming she was a “terrorist-supporting anti-Semite.” But the University of Exeter Students’ Guild – where she had been running in a student election – formally dismissed all charges against her.

Pro-Israel “charity”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism was established in 2014, against a background of rising protest of Israel’s deadly war against the Gaza Strip that summer.

As Greenstein wrote in an article for The Electronic Intifada in March this year, the new charity’s “purpose was to link the protests against the attack on Gaza to anti-Semitism.”

He explained that, “there had been a constituency within British Zionists who felt that establishment groups such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews were not active enough in defending Israel.”

As the article documented, the archives on the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s website reveal its anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian and right-wing agenda.

At the time of publication of Greenstein’s analysis, only two articles mentioned the UK’s three main fascist groups, while there were “77 articles attacking Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader and a veteran defender of Palestinian rights.”

What was their supposed crime? They had written a letter describing themselves as “Jews whose views are not represented by the chief rabbi, the Board of Deputies of British Jews or the pro-Israel lobbyists of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.”